VMware vSphere

VMware vSphere is a bare-metal hypervisor that virtualizes servers so you can consolidate your applications on less hardware. Offering a high level of availability and responsiveness for all applications and services, the tool can be considered the industry’s most complete and robust platform for virtualization in the most demanding data centers around the world.

One of the main advantages of the hypervisor is the application acceleration, which basically means that it can help improve the overall performance and resiliency of apps relying on top-notch technologies, such as persistent memory, DRS or vMotion. According to the developer, the tool provides efficient support for applications that are latency sensitive and enables IT professionals precision time protocol. At the same time, it comes with the necessary pools of accelerated hardware for AI / ML apps with supported GPUs.

In terms of security, vSphere encompasses a comprehensive, yet simple policy-driven model to help secure the hosts and applications. Thanks to features likevSphere Trust Authority, the IT department can provide remote support even for sensitive workloads, whereas vSphere identity federation enables a highly secure access and account management all across the platform.

Lastly, the tool ensures complication-free patching and firmware upgrades with the updated manager and planner. Moreover, the entire process can be automated via RESTful APIs and the industry standard JSON.